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The Hot Spot

Don Johnson (Actor), Virginia Madsen (Actor), Dennis Hopper (Director) Rated:
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Product Description

Don Johnson ("Nash Bridges"), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting) and Jennifer Connelly (Dark City) heat up the screen in this torrid erotic thriller from the acclaimed director of Easy Rider. Exploding in a series of suspenseful twists and passionate encounters, this "ingenious" (Los Angeles Daily News) film will keep you guessing until its final, shocking climax! Harry Madox (Johnson) is a handsome drifter who is not above larceny to make ends meet. After staging a daring daylight robbery at a local bank, he receives an alibi from an unexpected ally: Dolly Harshaw (Madsen), a sexy and mysterious local woman who has her own plans for him. But when Harry falls for another beautiful woman (Connelly), he incurs Dolly's wrath and finds himself caught in a maze of jealousy, betrayal and murder from which escape is impossible and danger is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams's source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed, and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favors and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehavior to qualify The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon

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Product Details

  • Actors: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler
  • Directors: Dennis Hopper
  • Writers: Charles Williams, Nona Tyson
  • Producers: Bill Gavin, Deborah Capogrosso, Derek Power, Paul Lewis, Stephen Ujlaki
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: June 13, 2000
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0792845803
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,063 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Hot Spot" on IMDb

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Hot Spot, like big big time heat.
By Greg Johnson on April 20, 2014
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Director Dennis Hopper
Written by Charles Williams (Novel)
Screenplay by Nora Tyson & Charles Williams
Starring: Don Johnson
Virginia Madson
Jennifer Connelly
Charles Martin Smith
Bill Sadler
Jerry Hardin
Barry Corbin
This is a 1990 project by Hopper that is well named "The Hot Spot". Almost everything about this movie is hot. The weather is hot. The sand dunes are hot. The cash is hot. The strip joint is hot. The fires are hot, and the charactors are driven by an underscored sensuality that heats up the screen. Harry (Johnson) drifts into town and pushes his way into a used car lot and hires himself as a salesmen. Harry is a mysterious man. He quickly notices the beauty bookkepper in the adjacent office (Connelly). A note about Connelly (Gloria) because she makes the movie. She is young, perfectly dressed, discovering her sexuality, gentle and she captures scene after scene. But Harry is being tempted by another woman which would be Dolly. Dolly is a different woman: A more experienced, more aggressive, adulterous, overpowering presence in the film.

But in part, this is a movie about betrayal. Harry commits horrific arson while he also commits larceny. Bill the loafing photographer is a blackmailer. Dolly cheats like a three dollar bill.

One of the most enjoyable scenes was the swimming hole that seemed to drip from every direction. It is an excellent location and finally we get to cool down. Gloria's atmospheric scenes with the disceased friend Irene are swept in the past by good directing by Hopper.
The film moves slowly as a little town might. All in all a good piece of work. GJ
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3.0 out of 5 starsMoonlight Lady
By BrokenArrow on July 23, 2015
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A sort of southern 1980s noir. A drifter (Don Johnson) rolls into town and makes it with the boss's wife (Virginia Madsen) and the boss's secretary. I think Virginia Madsen is absolutely beautiful and she has never looked better than in The Hot Spot. Ok movie, kind of a typical noir theme. However, Madsen makes it all worth while.
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5.0 out of 5 starslow down, nasty and very tasty
By drollere on January 12, 2003
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this is a helluva fun movie. yes, masden and connelly are great to look at and the camera gives us plenty of opportunities to do that, but this movie is about the way that our gut nature, our character, our instincts, whatever you want to call it, completely overwhelms our attempts to plan, connive, scheme, lie, thieve, blackmail and murder our way to a better life. as human nature is the protagonist, all the characters are more vivid than life and every role is played to the hilt: the cunning con man is just unbelievably cunning, the chaste young girl is just unbelievably chaste, the smarmy redneck is just unbelievably smarmy, the sexy rich wife is just unbelievably sexy, and the sex between her and the rambling car salesman/conman is just too unbelievably hot and irresistible not to be fate in disguise. as heraclitus said, "character is destiny." it all churns along like a perfectly timed v8 engine -- every plot twist is weirder than the last, and unfolds with the drama of a slow motion car wreck or a hot asphalt car race. this is a "b" movie and proud of it, and that makes it a gem.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDefinitely a "Hot Spot"!
By Betty J. Webb on June 8, 2001
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I certainly do not understand all the bad reviews for this movie. It definitely generated a lot of heat and the leads were perfectly cast. Jennifer Connelly plays a virginal office worker and Virginia Madsen is her polar opposite! Steamy, sexy, enticing. Don Johnson as drifter and ne'er do well Harry Maddox smolders when necessary. I'm surprised the TV screen didn't steam up from all the hot bodies and the steamy weather. Or was the weather steamy from the hot bodies? Great entertainment with an ending you will really not expect. Definitely worth the watch. Excellent music and excellent performances. Slow and deliberate movie making, not slam bam knock them in the face movie making, maybe that's why it got bad reviews, unintelligent folks can't understand it unless it is thrown in their face. No one does smoldering sexy better than Don Johnson and matched with Virginia Madsen, woo hoo!
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5.0 out of 5 starsDon at his best
By robert weiss on May 14, 2013
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Little know film of Don Johnson at his best. Many stars in it including a 18 yr old named Jennifer Garner. You may notice the guy who played his fellow car salesman was also in American Graffiti. Virginia Madson, sister of Michael Madson, played a beautiful role and is a true star!
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5.0 out of 5 starsBait and switch 101
By cautiously optomistic, whats good B, on August 2, 2016
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I paid for the unrated version and got a rated R copy, I'm still steamed about this
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4.0 out of 5 starsMuch better than I expected
By R. J. Marsella on August 7, 2006
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This updated film Noir style thriller set in a hot dusty small town in Texas is helped by steamy performances by Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen. Well directed by Dennis Hopper, the film at just over 2 hours manages to hold your attention throughout. Fascinating to watch really bad people doing really bad things to each other.

Jennifer Connelly (very young) showed tremendous promise in this.

The big surprise is Johnson who is actually terrific as the stranger in town that sets all the action in motion.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Philip R. Beck on November 1, 2016
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Good film, excellent dvd, fast delivery, thanks!
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